Walk · North Yorkshire

Tadcaster viaduct and the Wharfe

Tadcaster

3.3MILES

1h 24mON FOOT

40mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

Off-road 70% 30% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 45%Lane & track 25%Road with traffic 30%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Three and a third miles round the brewery town and its river, out along the Wharfe to the great eleven-arch viaduct that was built for a railway that never came and now carries only walkers, then back over the fields; forty metres of ascent and about an hour and a half. Start on Bridge Street in the centre where there is free town parking, and Tadcaster is well served by the 843 and 174 buses from York and Leeds. The viaduct deck is a broad firm surface with parapets, the riverside path gives dogs a proper swim in the Wharfe from shelving gravel, and the town section is all pavement so leads on there; the meadow paths flood when the Wharfe comes up, and it comes up fast, so check the level before you commit.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 53.8840, -1.2620

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.KOMOOT.COM/GUIDE/3651604/EASY-HIKES-AROUND-TADCASTER

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Tadcaster viaduct and the Wharfe

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